To Hell with Dying (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Walker
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: An unspecified southern state
- Principal Characters: Mr. Sweet Little, The narrator
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
Mr. Sweet Little was a diabetic, alcoholic, guitar-playing, tobacco-chewing, tall, thin, dark-brown man whose hair and straggly mustache were the color of Spanish moss. He lived alone on a neglected cotton farm down the road from the narrator and her family. Over a period of many years, Sweet Little and the children participated in a ritual that was an important element in the lives of all. When Mr. Sweet was feeling the worst, the bluest, the sickest-at-heart a man could be, he would take to his bed and the doctor would declare that old Mr. Sweet was dying. The...
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